I do all kind of fun things when I'm unconscious.

People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them.

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.

If you truly own who you are, no one can use you against you.

I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.

You can't shy away from your greatness just because you're afraid you're not great enough

Even in the worst of situations-even when it seems no one in the world appreciates you-as long as you have hope, everthing can get better

Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you.

To Grandma: Once upon a time, there was a boy who flew.

You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.

If I did anything right it was when I decided to practice forgiveness and free my heart from pain.

Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

The tension between us kicked up a notch, and I realized that along with our bodies being nearer, so were our lips.

Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.

I'm very into dark colors. I try to rock the dark against the ghost white skin as much as humanly possible.